A tough female ground troops soldier, Sargent Sorilla Aida, infiltrates an alien enemy line on a federation planet called Haden. She is stranded after the Federation Fleet loses its battle with the invaders’ three supporting ships in space. Recruiting local alien invasion survivors, she trains them in the art of guerilla warfare and leads them in skirmishes designed to harass the planet occupying aliens. A new Earth space fleet returns after several months with their more powerful ships intent on providing aid and defense to Haden's citizens. But again, they lose the entire fleet to the three alien ships that defeated the prior Federation Fleet. The aliens’ ships are powerful having the power to manipulate gravity and to use it in a singularity fashion to crush Federation ships. A few of the fleet's survey ships, sent to deliver food and supplies to the planet’s residents and to evacuate Sorilla and some of Haden's research scientist for repatriation and debriefing, accomplish their mission and destroy the remaining alien ship after its three-ship fleet’s mutually destructive battle with the much larger Federation fleet.

I was first introduced to this Evan Currie’s writing in the Odyssey One series. After that, I read his two-book Archangel series, and, with ‘On Silver Wings’, am now moving on to the Hayden Wars series. Evan Currie is one of the authors that I enjoy reading for relaxation and escape. His books are well written with very human characters utilizing advanced tools and technologies. Other authors I like in this genre are Vaughn Heppner, Neal Asher, and Marko Kloos. ( )

I enjoyed this book, but due to one particular grammatical idiosyncrasy, had to bump it down a star. Stopped noticing it after a couple of chapters.

Plotwise, I found this topnotch. Super-soldier woman jets in, overcomes all odds, discovers aliens, helps the locals create a militia and eventually drives off the badguys.

Have to see how the rest of the series holds up. ( )

seems to be a nicely developed piece of sci-fi. Better scientific engagement than most with a nicely alien twist. Classic Military SciFi - with much better than usual science, and pretty goo dmilitary. No greath depth of character but it is not chiefly a drama but rather more an action on which front it does quite well.
Will read more by author. ( )

I loved this book. It's fast paced, the characters feel real and I really connected with them. I don't want to spoil anything but the ideas running through the book were original and interesting too.

Definitely a must read, and I've already bought the next in the series. ( )